Presence of Mind
Oil on canvas, 30 X 24 inches, 2010
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Artists are archetypical voyeurs. As obsessed observers of everything around them, from the sordid to the sublime, they use their craft and creativity to disassemble existing realities and reconstruct new ones to take their place. The only thing that sets them apart from other mortals is that they have the presence of mind to face their worst nightmares without running away.